Asha

Asha is a married woman and has eight children. She lives at a rental house that has electricity, but not piped water. Her greatest monthly expense is food for the family.

For the past four years, she has operated an open-air food stall business. Her potential customers are market dwellers and neighbors.

With the KES 40,000, she wants to purchase sacks of beans, cooking oil, wheat flour and rice. She decided to join Yehu to access loans to boost her business.

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About Yehu Microfinance Trust

This loan is administered by Yehu Microfinance Trust, which was founded in 1998 as a project of CHOICE Humanitarian Kenya. In July 2007, Yehu became a separate entity from CHOICE and was registered as a trust. Since then, Yehu has expanded to cover over half of Kenya’s 13 coastal districts.